They’re far away from their rebbes, their friends and families, their shtieblach, and the 24/6 shopping and take-out they were used to in Boro Park or Williamsburg, but they’re setting down roots in a slower-paced, less congested, Torah-friendly town.
They’re far away from their rebbes, their friends and families, their shtieblach, and the 24/6 shopping and take-out they were used to in Boro Park or Williamsburg, but they’re setting down roots in a slower-paced, less congested, Torah-friendly town. Today’s chassidim have decided to venture beyond New York, where the grass really is greener
When the Babads made the move to Baltimore from Boro Park in time for the start of Elul zeman, among the items on their moving truck was a freezer full of meat.
Skulener-Vizhnitz chassidim, the couple figured there was no way the Baltimore stores would carry a hechsher to their liking, so they prudently stocked up.
How wrong they were.
Not only was Skverer and KJ meat available in the predominantly litvish community, there were many other reliable heimishe hechsheirim.
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